Archdeacons of St Albans

The list of Archdeacons of St. Albans goes back to AD 1120.At the time of the Dissolution the Archdeacon was Ordinary of Peculiars, and the holder of the office was instituting as well as inducting incumbents to parochial cures as late as 1554.

The last ten have been:

1942 Claud Thomas Thellusson Wood

(also Bishop of Bedford from 1948)

1982 Edward Matheson
Norfolk
1951 Charles Shipley Cockbill 1987 Philip Bertram Davies
1962 Basil Clark Snell 1999 Richard Ian Cheetham
1973 Peter Mumford 2003 Helen Margaret Cunliffe
1974 David John Farmbrough 2008 Jonathan Peter Smith